San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-06-23
From Georgia to Pennsylvania.

EDITOR FREE PREss Haven't been
able to see the old homo paper since
leaving Georgia. Have ordered mine
forwarded, but no FREE Press. Sup
pose you have quit sending 1t to
Stephens, Ga.
Say, did my last so into the waste
basket
Well, you know the Tribune said,
some time since, that Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher's first was rejected,
while one of his last brought as much
as two hundred dollars per column.
Perseverance is the crowning point
of success,
We had fine old time in Tennes.
see, met my old college president and
talked Of bygone days of hard work
and study. Found the dear old man
and the college moving on smoothly.
Visited Chattanooga, the booming
city of the South. This city is really
q marvel of thrift, push and pro
gress. ! wish that some Texas towns
had the vim of Chattanooga. All
kinds of manufacturing is going on
here. 1t looks more like an eastern
town than any one we have seen
south. Among the many things of
interest we visited, were the car
shops, rolling mills, stone works, pig
iron furnaces, glass works, etc., all in
successful operation.
Thence to Knoxville, Tenn, thence.
over the Louisville & Nashville r.
to Louisville, Ky. May we say one
word to your readers about the beau
tiful scenery along this line of road
from Knoxville to Louisville?
This, it will be observed, goes
rather angling across both states
mentioned, and at the same angle
across the main line of the Cumber-
land mountains. You also pass the
great Jellico coal mines, sixty six
miles above Knoxville.
The scenery is both grand and
beautiful, and peculiarly so as our
train passed over. The mountain
nowers were Just IN bloom, and the
trees just out in full dress. Some
times you go east, sometimes west,
sometimes north, and sometimes
south, and yet all the time you are
going north. The trouble is, you are
whirling around these large noun
tains at Neutrality-suspicious. rate.
toward every point of the compass,
in order to make your way, for forty
seven miles over rock and hills and
brooks and Wales and across the high
bridge of the Cumberland, and then
you fM yourself in the far-famed
Bluegrass region of Kentucky.
always feel like saying "Ala-
bama" when I come to this country,
famous, the men say, ''for pretty
horses and fast women" The ladies
say, ''for pretty women and fast
horses" Mr.. Editor, / do not wish to
tempt you to leave San Marcos, but !
assure you 10Th are here in abundance
Six x-forty, and the porter calls out
Louisville, KY, and I raise up and
wipe my weeping eyes, to see city
of one hundred and eighty five thous
and souls, all conglomerated togeth-
er, Germans, Hollanders. Italians,
French, Jews, Bohemians, all mass
ing and messing up together. Oh,
the immense strength of the Europ-
can nations in this countryl Will
the old Know Nothing party be re-
vived or not?
They are power, and it does seem
that they intend to be antagonistic to
our morals in spite of all we can do.
Note this, Louisville has nine hun
dred saloons-one to every 2O5 men,
women and children-and not more
than one hundred of these curses are
run by native Americans.
While here we had the Democratic
state convention.t the Republican state
convention, and the grand state con-
cIave Of the Knights of Pythias, so
we had nothing TO do but sit and
learn; and last but not least, the
great races Of the Kentucky Jockey
Club.
Louisville is divided into five parts.
The first is a conglomerate mass Of
low class laborers; the second is n
shade better class OF laborers; the
third is manufacturers OF various
kinds; the fourth is composed Of
horse-race betting and general gigan-
tic gamblers, and the fifth are the
higher class; and from indications
one wOdld suppose that about one
tenth Of the last fifth were moral
How long vill the great state OF
Kentucky allow horse gambling TO
20 on; bow long viii she allow her
fair name 10 be blOtted with this foul
stencil in the nOstrils Of a CIVILIZED